Jason Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

🚀 Empowering Containerization at DockerAt Docker, I had the privilege of driving innovation and fostering community engagement in the world of containerization. My work focused on enabling users to unlock the full potential of modern application development, from hands-on education to thought leadership. Key accomplishments include:📝 Best Practices Blog Series: Authored a widely-read series that broke down fundamental containerization topics, providing actionable insights for developers and operators alike. These posts focused on the "what," "how," and "why" of containerization, bridging knowledge gaps and resonating with users across experience levels.📊 Customer Enablement Sessions: Designed and delivered tailored training sessions for external clients, including a two-day workshop for a DoD customer, helping them build secure, scalable, and efficient containerized architectures.🎓 Internal Enablement: Led onboarding programs for new hires, ensuring every sales team member at Docker was equipped with the knowledge to navigate and contribute to the dynamic container ecosystem.🌐 Community Engagement: Delivered webinars, blog posts, and enablement sessions to demystify containerization, enabling organizations to modernize their workflows with confidence.🤝 Collaboration at Scale: Partnered with commercial and government tech leads and managers to integrate diverse tools into containerized environments, showcasing real-world use cases and driving adoption.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Currently serving as Principle Product Manager for NGINX Amplify.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Served as the primary maintainer of the Modern Applications Reference Architecture (MARA), a ready-to-deploy model of a modern Kubernetes application designed for testing, experimentation, and learning.Authored numerous blog posts on NGINX, MARA, and the NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller, addressing real-world issues and providing step-by-step solutions.Presented at numerous internal and external conferences and events, including NGINX Microservices March, OTEL Day, Gluecon, F5 Tech Summit, F5 Agility, F5 Tech Exchange, and NGINX Sprint 2.0/3.0. Presentation topics included OpenTelemetry, MARA, Open Source Software, and NGINX products.Conducted numerous tutorials, webinars, and labs in partnership with other organizations to highlight the interoperability of NGINX’s product offerings within the modern applications technology landscape.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

Lead for Manta product planning and execution efforts throughout the entire software development lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product requirements, defining product vision, and collaborating with technical teams and key stakeholders to ensure customer voices are heard throughout all processes.Define and manage feature roadmaps using data collected from the customer requirements, engineering capabilities, and overall company goals. Analyze customer requirements and produce product requirements documents to guide new feature designs and proposals. Author and deliver reports to inform decision making activities, including trade-off reports, status reports, high-level incident reports, and technical review documents.Work with executive staff to support corporate processes and procedures, including budgetary reporting, business objective reporting and defense, and overall status reporting.Provide project management for all projects within the Manta team throughout their lifecycle, including resource management, cross-department communication, scope management, trade-off management, and status reporting.

Greater Denver Area

Served as final escalation point for customer issues and provided technical leadership for both the Support organization and the Network Operations Center. Worked closely with engineering and operational groups to drive feature development and align process and procedures with customer requirements while maintaining a focus on ensuring that customer requirements are understood and met.Supported on-premises Triton and Manta deployments, including planning, deployment, management, and monitoring. Managed software release process for on-premises customers.Liaised with sales and solutions engineering to manage customer experience and provide best practice solutions with an emphasis on downstack support, planning, and feasibility validation.Served as Technical Account Manager for top tier cloud customers.Created training programs and documentation for internal staff, Samsung staff, and other customers including the creation of Manta Object Storage and Triton Orchestration certification programs.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Responsible for all aspects of a legacy Ingres/OpenROAD-based ERP system from the metal up, including all related programming, systems management, data stewardship, and database administration efforts. Realized cost savings, performance, user satisfaction, and service recoverability by migrating from a proprietary OS and RDBMS to open source software running on fault-commodity hardware.Migrated legacy, unsupported MS Windows servers to fault-tolerant hardware and supported versions of Windows Server and Exchange, which reduced expenditures, increased uptime, and provided new features to the user base.Worked closely with all users from executive levels down to improve data access to enable better strategic and operational decision making. Recognized by sales leadership for consistently delivering timely and actionable data to help support sales efforts, including creating reporting to analyze historical customer usage to determine additional sales opportunities.

Remote

Performed remote and on-site consulting for clients, with an emphasis on database and systems performance, application design and delivery, and operational procedures. Served as Project Manager and Technical Lead for multiple at-risk projects for multiple high profile customers, including a global semiconductor distributor, an oil exploration and processing company, and a medical devices company.Developed and managed disaster recovery plans as Disaster Recovery Coordinator for a global client, including conducting yearly testing at a secondary recovery site. Lead a team in the development of a high level business continuity plan for a UK based cable manufacturer.Directed a team of internal staff and subcontractors and oversaw all related training and career development, utilization, and performance management efforts. Assisted with sales efforts, created proposals and statements of work, and managed customer relationships. Authored courses and whitepapers focusing on database operations, unix system operations, and general consulting and troubleshooting guidelines.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Responsible for all aspects of client’s AIX and Ingres/OpenROAD based 24x7 shop floor control system, including systems and database management as well as the design, maintenance, and management of application programs.Team lead on Y2K compliance project charged with upgrading or replacing all non-compliant servers, applications, and shop floor control components.Created scripts and procedures to correct HACMP issues that were causing unplanned downtime on the shop floor. This reduced unscheduled downtime from an average of 4 hours per month to less than 10 minutes.Implemented standard polices and procedures for database and systems administration, including performance metric tracking, backup and recovery testing, and problem determination and troubleshooting.Trained Cap Gemini and client staff in Ingres Database Management, AIX System Administration, and client application development/maintenance.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Certified instructor for Computer Associates Ingres and OpenROAD related coursework.Supported a Data Warehouse proof of concept effort at a major national museum. Assisted staff in creating a working prototype that demonstrated the design and functionality of the proposed system.Provided “Ad Hoc” consulting support for clients, ranging from “System Down” events to application development and DBA assistance.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Responsible for overall management of Ingres Databases, HP 9000 Workstations and Servers (HP/UX 9.x), X- Terminals, and network equipment as part of a key manufacturing system project.Managed legacy support for HP 3000 Minicomputer and Unisys System 80 mainframe, which supported company ordering and manufacturing systems.Provided PC support for manufacturing and distribution user community, including responsibility for upgrades, virus protection, backup/recovery, and application assistance.

Master Of Science - Ms, Organizational Leadership

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Cum Laude, Information Technology Project Management